Goldhooked

2 hours ago, Atomic47 said:

Ive done with ebay

 

Today I sold a watch for 375 plus 6 quid postage. Ebay charged me 49.31 !!  for the privilege. Its my own fault for not taking notice of the fees but that its, I'm done with ebay.  

You know you would have paid more overall if it was still eBay plus PayPal?

Prior to managed payments you would have been charged 10% by eBay and 2.9%+30p by PayPal.  So your total fees would have been £49.45.

eBay Managed Payments has actually saved you 14 pence!

1 hour ago, ZigZag said:

Yep. Royal Mail Group Ltd 👍

The Post Office hasn’t been part of Royal Mail Group since 2012, if that’s what you mean.  Apologies if I misunderstood  👍

What I was really getting at though was that you don’t have to accept a business telling you to go and make a claim if something they sent has gone missing.

1 hour ago, ZigZag said:

All sorted thanks. The Post Office tried to say delivery had happened, fortunately there are honest people out there that admit mistakes happen.

Sorry to be pedantic but the Post Office don’t deliver anything so I’m sure you meant Royal Mail.

The point I was making was that it was poor customer service to make you progress the claim.  As the business who sent the item it was him that should have been making the claim, not expecting his customers to do so.

6 minutes ago, ZigZag said:

On one occasion, a package for a single coin got lost in the post, thanks the R.M. He did everything he could to help me out in my claim.

Your claim?  Is it something he sent you?  With a business-to-customer transaction it’s the business sender who should be responsible for claiming. A business is responsible for the goods until they are delivered to the recipient.

3 hours ago, DBCooper said:

eBay is finished !

I doubt it.  Maybe for a lot of individuals but not for businesses.  I’ve been a business seller on ebay for 12 years and there’s still plenty of life left in it yet.  I know of many other businesses that are doing hundreds of sales a day and more on eBay.

And most business sellers welcome managed payments.  I certainly do as it’s makes bookkeeping that little bit easier having the sales and payments under one roof.  That’s how’s it’s always been for Amazon and Etsy.

I’ve seen people saying ‘eBay is finished’ time and time again over the years, usually when they make a change and some people don’t like it.  But for every seller that leaves, there’s multiples more who take their place.

In fact it’s quite good as it shakes the tree of the smaller sellers who come along and undercut you because they don’t have to worry about VAT, don’t have the same overheads and they don’t mind making pennies per sale.

Wheeler Dealer Man by Terry Wheeler 🤷‍♂️

4 minutes ago, HerefordBullyun said:

Buddy you must have the patience of a saint! The great british public! nuff siad!

12 years of dealing with eBay/Amazon/Etsy customers has certainly been an experience!!

Personally I would report them to eBay for that message, it’s totally unacceptable.  I’ve been selling professionally on eBay for years and have dealt with some proper cretins of customers but have never replied to any of them like that.  No need to be an ar5e when dealing with ar5eholes 🤷‍♂️

On 09/06/2021 at 17:50, SidS said:

Palladium on the other hand seems virtually unobtainable by comparison.

Palladium aka Unobtainium.  Next to Vibranium on the periodic table 😆

On 24/07/2020 at 13:31, Wonger said:

Lets hope you continue posting that chart for updates until $385 by the end of 2021 

What ever happened to @Wonger?  Does he still think we’re on for $385 in the next 6 months?!

Wait for it......he'll be here any minute!

59 minutes ago, mr-dead said:

Just wondering why you trusted the 1 person over the handful that disagreed with him

This!!  Literally no-one else agreed with Wonger (until the recent sock puppet account) and those openly disagreeing have combined reputation points in the thousands.  But for some reason @Hennypenny decided to listen to the one lone, heavily disagreed with opinion?!

22 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

He claims to be a futures trader with 22 years experience

For real?  Let’s be generous and say he started learning from his bedroom at 16, that would make him 38!!  No chance - the way he comes across he sounds like he is about 22 now so did his career start in the maternity ward 🤣

Just now, Wonger said:

No as I think I may be busy Friday at the Gold Bears Party after taking $100 off the Futures price in 9 days as only $61 to go and were just warming up! 😉

In that case if you do mean Saturday 18th then you are actually using the price of Friday 17th. So are you comparing with May 17th or May 18th in your 2 month time frame?

10 minutes ago, Wonger said:

In 4 Days it will be £21 lower than 2 Months ago at current prices, sorry my mistake, I will re post in 4 Days time 😁

So you actually mean in 3 days time then 😉

Belgian 20 Franc 1874.  There appears to be a couple of types of these, anyone know which one this is?

1 hour ago, Shep said:

Anyone had any joy coaxing one of the stuck ones out of the capsule yet?

Without destroying the capsules I’m at a loss of ideas at the moment 🤷‍♂️ 

I haven’t tried but thought I probably wont bother until it comes time to sell.

I guess you could try a hairdryer to gently heat the capsule?  I’m thinking the capsule might expand faster than the coin?  Try at your own risk though!

6 minutes ago, silverdocket said:

Best way to open any capsule in my opinion is with a flat Stanley blade.

Gently working it all the way around till she pops like a Pop-Tart 

 

Capsule opens fine but coin is stuck in one half of the capsule.

3 minutes ago, Booky586 said:

I had the same issue, removed half the capsule and the coin is wedged into the other half. Perhaps we're the lucky ones with extra size coins!

Haha!  More likely the unlucky ones with extra small capsules 🤣

Anyone tried taking them out of the capsule?  2 of mine come out easily but the other 2 are wedged in tight.  No amount of tapping the capsules has made them budge.

Mine arrived today, ordered on the 2nd.  No dispatch email or tracking number as echoed by everybody else.

10 minutes ago, Wonger said:

why don't you add value to the thread instead of nonsense!😉  

Oh, the irony 😉

2 hours ago, Brucey said:

How would CGT effect a kangaroo sorry?

Will definitely consider that. This isn't making it any easier for me now haha! 

Don’t forget that CGT is only charged on profits over your allowance.  The current allowance is £12300 so you’d have to sell enough gold in one tax year to make at least £12301 PROFIT before you start getting charged any capital gains tax.

11 minutes ago, Liam84 said:

Well, I received a payment receipt as it was paid for by debit card. It's a normal post sale receipt and confirms special delivery. Should be good enough...?

"We have received confirmation of payment. Thank you - your order is now being processed. We will email you again when your order has been despatched."

There is no specific acceptance of your offer in that message so I think they could still cancel.  It’s an odd set of terms and conditions because most businesses nowadays usually state they don’t form the contract with you until they have dispatched the goods.  It then gives them right up to the last minute to spot any mistakes and back out.  You might get lucky.

I still see a lot of businesses using ‘despatch’ even some courier/shipping companies!